Friday, September 20, 2013

Championship: 2nd Place - Selbst

$3300 + $200 Championship Deep Stack Double Play NLH  

 Vanessa Selbst (Las Vegas, NV)   
$492,569

Vanessa Selbst and Anthony Zinno began heads up play virtually even in chips, but the cards didn't cooperate with Selbst who settles for runner-up in the WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship Event.

On the final hand, Selbst's K♠ 10♣ doesn't improve against Zinno's A♣ 6.

"I was fortune just to get to heads up and I had a shot at it," says Selbst who would have been the first woman to win a televised WPT open event. "I'm sure I'll be back again and close it out next time."

This was Selbst second career WPT final table, improving on her 3rd place finish in 2011. While she doesn't add a WPT title to her resume, which features 11 titles and two WSOP bracelets, her second place finish takes her career earnings to nearly $8 million.

"$490k is a nice consolation prize," she says on her way to the cage.

This is Selbt's second Borgata cash after making a deep run in the 2011 WPT Borgata Poker Open with a 23rd place finish.

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